Tag: 2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
An artist who doesn't stay put, We thought this directorial debut would have receive the green light same time last year, but aside from...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Greg Kinnear’s The Philosophy of Phil
From Little Miss Sunshine to the more recent Little Men, Greg Kinnear has been part of the recent tapestry of the festival as an actor,...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marius A. Markevicius’ Ashes in the Snow
We've got Drake Doremus' oft-used screenwriter in Ben York Jones, The Diary of a Teenage Girl starlet Bel Powley and a docu filmmaker who...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ari Gold’s American Sway
His debut film (Adventures of Power) premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and his sophomore film project which lensed perhaps as far back...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alexandre Moors’ The Yellow Bird
Once a genre that was box office poison and an area that indie film did not want to address either, there has a resurgence...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin/Carrillo/Kusama/St. Vincent/Vuckovic’s XX
Looking down our list, if included at this year's fest, they would be emblematic of what we believe will be the highest percentage of...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kate & Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock
We imagine they just didn't quit their day jobs, so it might have been a longer post production gestation period for the first time...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All
While he was busy delivering the Netflix Series 'Easy,' January to November 2016 will have came and went and we will not have heard...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson
Now pegged with a March 24th date via Fox Searchlight, despite it not being an acquisitions title, Craig Johnson's Wilson could still land in...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Fritz Böhm’s Wildling
Sundance’s 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley stars in a project that is being Let The Right One In and maybe a pinch of The Babadook. Prior...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Where is Kyra?
Andrew Dosunmu left quite the mark with his Sundance preemed micro-indie (Restless City) and macro indie (Mother of George) offerings and now he turns...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lake Bell’s What’s The Point?
We heart Lake Bell's head, specifically what's inside it. In a World... not only took us by surprise, but it took the home the Waldo...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stacie Passon’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
She's one of our favorites and thankfully it hasn't been too long a wait between her tough as nails dramatic debut Concussion (starring the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peer Pedersen’s We Don’t Belong Here
He worked on a couple of titles as a producer including the TIFF preemed Megan Griffiths' Lucky Them (2013) and the Sundance preemed, unfathomably...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Madeleine Olnek Emily Dickinson Project
We were a little too early with this prognostication, and we don't yet have an official title, but we're now thinking it's time for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Joshua Z Weinstein Hassidic Film Project
For the better part of the last decade, the cinematographer/additional photographer has built himself an incredibly vast curriculum vitae and perhaps 2017 is when...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled David Lowery Project
There was a sense that something was being cooked up, but for all we knew, the members on Ain't Them Bodies Saints were having...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Untitled Amir Bar-Lev Grateful Dead Documentary Project
Sundance has been especially welcoming to Amir Bar-Lev with My Kid Could Paint That (2007) and The Tillman Story (2010) and Happy Valley (2014) having all premiered at the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
While his brother (John Michael McDonagh) appears to enjoy the Park City backdrop (The Guard, Calvary) so does this Londoner / short film Oscar...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting
Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose this sequel as the special screening at Sundance and all will be forgiven for when...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cory Finley’s Thoroughbred
Featuring two current "it" actresses, a young playwright making his directorial debut and one of the last performances from Anton Yelchin, Thoroughbred could be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale
Not unlike Gabriela Cowperthwaite, here is the example of another female docu filmmaker who broke out at Sundance and has now climbed into fiction narrative territory....
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19
We thought that Fox Searchlight would have dropped this at last year's Sundance or sometime in 2016, but the distribution have pegged it for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
You can't rush a good thing, and you certainly can't rush a project that is not that far removed from one' self. We've been...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein’s The Strange Ones
If Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein's directing debut shores up in Park City it'll be its second stint. The filmmaking pair introduced The Strange...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep
She hit the triple crown of Sundance Institute workshops as a participant in the 2013 Screenwriters, Directors and Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Porterfield’s Sollers Point
Part of the mini Baltimore/Maryland clique of filmmaker contributors adding significant contributions to the American indie scene, Matt Porterfield lined auds up with personalized cinema offerings of Hamilton...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Austin Vesely’s Slice
Like several other media folks, this new project only came to our attention when the cool kids in film distribution landed the rights. With...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shawn Christensen’s Sidney Hall
Part musician/part filmmaker, Shawn Christensen is an Academy Award winner (Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for his 2012 film, Curfew) who would adapt the short...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending
He piled on the short films more or less around the time where he was selected for 2009 Sundance Writers and Directors Labs with...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Mayer’s The Seagull
A premium title for the acquisitions side of Sundance, Michael Mayer has been absent from feature films since
his first pair A Home at the...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Michael Larnell’s Roxanne, Roxanne
Michael Larnell knows a thing or two about big breaks. He launched his filmmaking career with the microbudgeted Cronies which was included in Sundance's NEXT section...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jessica Manafort’s Rosy
The daughter of former Trump campaign chairman proposes an anti-Stockholm Syndrome with her NYC set, kidnapping thriller Rosy. Lensing began in November of 2015...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Palansky’s Rememory
A Canuck filmmaker who found a mentor in Michael Bay in his formative years, Mark Palansky broke out with Christina Ricci fantasy film Penelope...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pacho Velez’s The Reagan Years
We're hoping that the proverbial expression that no news is good news will be the case for a docu that we were projecting for...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Brian Crano’s Permission
With 2011's A Bag of Hammers and his 2014's short "Dog Food" both preeming at Austin, you can bet that the SXSW programmers have Brian...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Margarita Jimeno’s My Life is a Soundtrack
Jury prize winner at Champs Elysees Film Festival's U.S. in Progress this past summer, Margarita Jimeno’s sophomore feature currently titled My Life is a...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Liz W. Garcia’s One Percent More Humid
In 2005, Franklin Leonard issued the very first edition of The Blacklist. Things We Lost in the Fire, Juno, Lars and the Real Girl...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jim McKay’s On the Seventh Day
Perhaps the indie film career path anomaly on our complete predictions list, Jim McKay found relative success at Sundance using the festival as a platform...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dee Rees’ Mudbound
The Sundance Institute and festival were the lieu where Pariah (both the short and feature) received critical help and it gave indiewood a new...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tommy O’Haver’s The Most Hated Woman in America
Not a biopic on Hillary Clinton but the title of one outspoken trailblazing personality who took on gawking religious folk, despite some television work Tommy...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Mercy
The chances of seeing Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer's Mercy premiere at Sundance are next to nil and that's not because it wouldn't be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Megan Leavey
The only commonality found in Sundance buzz issue doc film Blackfish and Gabriela Cowperthwaite's fiction debut might be the move from big fish to...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers
A two-time Sundance Film Fest attendee with Momma's Man (2008) and Terri (2011), Azazel Jacobs' next should follow suit in Park City and dynamic interpersonal relationships...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Russell Harbaugh’s Love After Love
I recall watching Russell Harbaugh's Rolling on the Floor Laughing (2012 edition Sundance) and feeling an air not unlike a cold draft. This is...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours
Can filmmaker Jeff Baena get the triple crown of Sundance invites? So far two for two with his feature films in 2014's Life After...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Janicza Bravo’s Lemon
She's been a botany of flourishingly unique pieces of art (we discovered her with her award-winning short) and the Sundance have been the lucky...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jody Hill’s Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter
It's more with HBO's "Vice Principals," and "Eastbound & Down," than oddball goofball offering in the Sundance preemed The Foot Fist Way (2006) and...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Seeing that Andrew Haigh's career has been climbing in the same upward trajectory as the best stock options on the fortune 500, we shouldn't be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gillian Robespierre’s Landline
She turned a lot of heads when she presented married a not around the dinner table taboo topic with unfiltered characters. According to our...
